A90 Toyota Supra may be better known as a circuit engraver, but that hasn’t stopped Big T from campaigning for it among most Americans. sports car racing: drag racing. Unveiled at Auto Club Speedway in Pomona, California, one of the spiritual homes of postwar hot fans, the fun car shows what fans can expect to see in the strips pull for the 2022 NHRA season.
Of course, there is little in common with reality Supra highways. It covers a super ambiguity carbon fiber the body on the frame pulls the dedicated pipe frame. The silhouette is made as smooth as possible, so most of the Supra’s design cues are just large decals. It may look silly, but it doesn’t get weirder Toyota Celica NHRA of the 2000s or born Tow truck which Supra is replacing.
Toyota hasn’t revealed the Supra’s specs, but if its previous NHRA entrants are anything to go by, there’s really nothing funny about this fun car. NS camry dragster has fitted an 8.2-liter turbocharged V8 beneath its composite canopy. Horsepower ranges between 10,000 and 11,000, capable of accelerating the car to 100 mph in less than a second and down a quarter mile in less than four. Since the main thing that changes is the body, there is no reason to believe that the Supra won’t be equally strong.
For those who are crazy about the direction the Supra has taken, it could be argued that the dragster is the most natural evolution of the much-loved fourth-generation Supra. In the early days of regulating imports, that was a real force to be reckoned with. Toyota’s legendary 2JZ-GTE engine, twin-turbocharged and twin-cam, 3.0-liter inline, is typically tuned to 800-1,000 hp for 6.5-second E/T blasts – in a doorbell. Its popularity with drag racers eventually earned it a spot in the street racing franchise.”The Fast & the Furious. “
This year marks 20 years since Toyota officially joined the NHRA. Over the years, Toyota has scored six Top Fuel and three Fun Car championships. Drivers JR Todd and Alexis DeJoria will continue to act as official drivers for 2022.
